Question: What is the difference between hypertension and high blood pressure, and what do blood pressure numbers mean? Answer: Well, hypertension and high blood pressure are two terms that are almost used interchangeably. What you have is a number above which you have a defined diagnosis -- at least that's how we tend to do this in medicine.
Stephen Hawking. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (/ËstiËvÉn ËhÉËkÉªÅ/; born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
He doesn't have ALS but rather another form of neuro-muscular dystrophy related to it. I wouldn't exactly call him lucky - he is completely paralyzed except for his eyes. Hawking is definitely more famous than he probably would be if he didn't have his condition, but he is still very smart. He's done a lot of work with singularities and black holes, and discovered that black holes actually aren't completely black. The type of radiation they give off is called Hawking Radiation.